X tra special mCommunity Newspaper Company II www.towno~line.com/allstonbrighton JUNE 16 - 22, 1998 Vol. 3, No. 9 R 80 Pages II Two Sections 50¢ .The Speeding skater g:eat graffit· battle Despite crackdown, vandals still make their mark locally By Melissa Da Ponte TAB Staff Writer wo I 8-year-old Allston resi­ dents were arrested on graffiti­ Trelated charges last week on Harvard Avenue in Allston Village - a business district that's recently been hit with a wearisome new wave of black-ink markings and scrawled monikers. As they do after every vandalism arrest, Boston Police are now reviewing records to see if the two men could be responsible for any markings besides the ones they were charged with creating at 5:22 a.m. on June 6. Though the community has made Michael Sussman skates by a bathhouse at the Charles River Road playground last week. GRAFFITI, page 30 Storefront becomes a spiritual center New Life is an umbrella group that A new church is born in brought together six churches in 199 l. Since bustling Brighton Center then, the start-up parishes, which are inde­ pendent and represent several denomina­ tions. have been staggering their use of By Melissa Da Ponte 3,000 feet of leased space at 2539 Fordham TAB Staff Writer Road in Allston. n a busy strip of banks and florists But their landlord's plans to sell the Allston and pizza hops, in front of a bus building have forced the congregations to find 0 stop and near the intersection of two a new house of worship. In March, when crowded thoroughfares, a church is being Berklee College of Music signed a lease born in Brighton Center. agreement for the building that included an Beginning Aug. 1, New Life Inc. will fill option to buy, the coUege made it clear that all the commercial space at 380 Washington St. 23,000 square feet of the building would be with crosses, a pulpit and rows of plastic needed for students to practice musical instru­ chairs - creating the only storefront church ments in soundproof studios. in the neighborhood's hub. After much searching, church leaders "People will still be able to see inside the secured the Washington Street site, which had windows," said The Rev. Herold Aubourg, housed the Children's Hospital Thrift Shop pastor of the Evangelical Charismatic Center, until it closed its doors for good last month. which will share the space with at least two But for financial reasons, only the Haitian, other congregations. "We're a live church. We Brazilian and Evangelical congregations The Rev. Herold Aubourg is part of New Life Inc., a coalition of three congregations that are setting up a sing. We dance. We do everything in the con­ opted to move into the comparably sized storefront church in Brighton Center. text of Jesus Christ." CHURCH, page 31 see page 5 WORKING see classifieds I . t II r I ' I I Page 2 The Allston-Brighton TAB, June 16 - 22, J 998 www.townonlin~ POlO SPORT Nautica Competition Tommy Gift set, just 49.50. A $70 value!1 Eau de Toilette Gift set, just $45. An 83.50 value!1 Cologne Spray/ Gift set, just $50. A $65 value! t Cologne Spray/Body Spray/Face & Body Sports Cream/Alcohol-free Shave Cream/After Shave Balm/signature pen. Wash/All-weather Body Moisturizer/Deodorant Stick. Deodorant Stick. The collection: $10-$48 The collection: $14-$45 The collection: $12-$42 Mf N'S fHAGHANCf Sf IS It atimely ~onusl Safari for Men "le Male" Jean Paul Gaultier Gift set, just $50. 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Melo said in the home until a new owner is found. According to the Ma'>sachusetts Extended rate inadequate to keep order for the home to remain viable the state "It's important to note that the home is not Care Federation, the average statewide would have to increase the Medicaid reim­ closing," Ball said. "And this administration is Medicaid reimbursement rate for long-tenn Union Square center running bursement rate to $112. committed to keeping the Union Square care facilities was $112.50 on Feb. L "The employee buyout group has appealed Nursing Home open. The $102 reimburse­ The home has been in danger of closing for By Linda Rosencrance directly to [actingJ Gov. [PaulJ Cellucci to ment rate is the maximum allowed [for this more than two years. The courts had given the TAB Staff Writer provide rate relief for the troubled facility for type of facility] by state regulations. In fact, it union until May 29 - after numerous other he employees of the Union Square the past four months," Melo said. "But on is $400,000 more than the home currently extensions - to put together a deal to pur­ Nursing Center in Allston are end­ June 8, the group was informed that our gets. We had hoped the union would remain chase the home. But when the issue came ing their attempt to purchase the appeal had been denied and that the state's in negotiations, but we're hopeful that a pri­ before Suffolk Superior Court two weeks ago, T facility. Division of Health Care Finance and Policy vate nursing home company will come for­ the state asked for an extension of three Officials of the employees' union said last would be basing the facility's rate on its 1996 ward and purchase the facility." months. The court, however, granted an exten­ week that it is ending its year-long effort to operating history." Tom Higgins, director of health care for the sion until June 23. buy the home because the state's proposed But David Ball, a spokesman for the state's union, blamed the Cellucci administration for The effort to save the home has attracted Medicaid $101.74 reimbursement rate for the Office of Health and Human Services, which abandoning the patients and employees of the significant support from its residents and facility was inadequate to operate the home. oversees the Division of Health Care Finance nursing home. employees as well as state officials and com­ The Union Square center receives $93 per and Policy, said the rate was adequate to oper­ "Despite months of lip service about the munity leaders. patient from the state. According to Alda ate the facility. The home will remain in the administration's concern for the patients, the Joanne McKenna, the economic develop­ Melo, a representative of Local 285 of the hands of Joseph Butler, an attorney who was governor would not even allow for a reim­ ment director for the Allston-Brighton Service Employees International Union, that appointed by Suffolk Superior Court to over- bursement rate equal to the Boston city aver- HOME,page7 Coming down from the Mount most significant change at the Despite successes, Mount during the last decade. school principal Murphy said she saw this caring attitude in action when she to]d the plans to move on student body her decision to leave. "I started with the senior class," By David Carabello she said. "I called them together in TAB Correspondent the auditorium and told them, 'When ister Mary L. Murphy loves you were in second grade ... I was her job as principal of Mt. St. principal,' I tried to put it in context. S Joseph Academy. There were a few tears, lot of shock, Many of the students there say but they were mostly concerned they admire and respect Murphy.